Windows 7 Media player will not play back BluRay disc's

Anonymous
2009-10-25T16:16:04+00:00

I just installed Windows 7 premium home,full retail 64 bit version. I was surprised to find media player does not support BluRay playback. I read the previous post in this forum and see, as far back as May, that Microsoft was aware of the codec issues with BluRay playback on Win. 7

What is Microsoft doing to solve this glaring issue. BluRay has been around for a long time and I'm sure thousands of Windows 7 customers are going to be in the same boat as me. There are NO codec available through a Google search ( 64 bit) and I would be very reluctant to use one off the internet anyway (Virus issues)

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2009-10-28T13:18:41+00:00

Hi Patrick,

As we know that Blu-Ray is a patented technology so it requires appropriate codecs to be purchased and hence we cannot include it in our Operating System.

To play a Blu-ray Disc, you need to use a non-Microsoft program that supports Blu-ray playback and a device capable of reading Blu-ray Discs.

Check the below link:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/MPEG-and-DVD-video-frequently-asked-questions

Hope this information is useful.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-01T00:25:40+00:00

    You miss understand the key issue.

    Blu-Ray is a patented proprietary software, owned by Sony and 16 other companies.

    For Microsoft to provide out of the box support for Blu-ray they would have to jump through a large number of legal hoops and at the end of the day, pay a license fee for every copy of Windows sold, the cost of which they would pass on to us, the consumer.

    On top of that Sony, makers of the Playstation, are in direct competition with Microsofts XBox. Guess why the XBox doesn't have Blu-Ray?

    The problem is not Technical in anyway, it is a legal and political issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-10-03T05:01:50+00:00

    I Purchased The new Cyberlink DVD12 and now all my Blue ray Movies Are functional.  Bur ther is a problemwith the playbacf of some if my HD-DVDs.  Some work and some Do-nor. Bur all my  re-ular CDs And B;ue Ray DVDs Worl very well now. The extra cost with a discout was $84.95 Plus an additional $8.50 fo extended Download service.

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